Neurons change their tune
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Visual Aftereffects: Cortical Neurons Change Their Tune
Recent studies of areas V1 and MT in the visual cortex show that exposure to a stimulus can change the contrast sensitivity of cells and shift their peak sensitivity to a new orientation or movement direction. In MT, these shifts can correctly predict illusory changes - visual aftereffects - in movement direction, but in V1, they are more difficult to interpret.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nature Reviews Neuroscience
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1471-003X,1471-0048
DOI: 10.1038/nrn2581